BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1924, Page 2

BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

tg, aUS l UALLAN ANII N S. UAIH.E ASSOCIATION BIG CRUISERS NEEDED. ERII'AJX UNPREPARED FOR WAR. LONDON, April 9. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dove ton Sturdco. speaking before the Insltiute of Naval Architects, said we were less prepared for war now than at any period in our existence. We must not neglect big cruisers, which were most useful in defending our trade routes. VOTES FOR WOMEN IN SPAIN. MADRID. April 10. Tiie Spanish Directorate has given the ' vote to unmarried and divorced women above twenty-one years of age. Married women living with their husbands have no vote, as they are dependent on their husbands according to Spanish law. WIRELESS SERVICE. LONDON, April 9. The ‘'Daily Herald” hints that if ” the Ministry decides to admit private enterprise in the foreign wireless service, it will be the Marconi Company. The decision on the Imperial Committee’s report will bo announced in a few days. MALTA’S NEW GOVERNOR. LONDON, -April P. General Sir Walter Congreve has been appointed Governor of Malta in succession to Lord Plainer. WREATH FOR CENOTAPH. LONDON, April 9. A wreath of Waratali blossom, frozen in a block ot ice, is arriving by the Mooitan. The wreath will bo placed on the cenotaph on April 25th by Lady Cook, on behalf of the .Anr.ae Fellowship of AVomeii. ASYLUM APPEAL. LONDON, April 11 The appeal against the damages awarded Harnett against Dr Rond, of tiie Asylums Department Administration, on the ground of Harnett being wrongly kept in an asylum, which bad lapsed on to a long legal argument, has reached the closing stages. Sir .1. Simon, for Harnett, in supporting the judgment, declared that his client’s illness was due to toxic poisoning. He remarked that Dr Adam said he never doubted that bis insanity was the result of an injection of tuberculin. Sir .T. Simon added that Harnett bad been fool enough to put himself into the bands of a quack named Taylor, who. bad injected the stuff into lo's arm. Simultaneously 5

Harnott suffered a great shock in the h nil ol a 'threat that lie would be returned to the asylum, which fact had not been revealed in the public trial. The hearing was adjourned.

GOVERNMEXT EMPLOYEES’ STRIKE LIKELY. I.ONDOX. April 11. ■ Seven hundred engineering students ; office workers, acting stokers, lift attendants. and lint water fitters at the royal palaces, and Government offices have decided to strike to-day unless their dftriiinds for a wage increase are; met .satisfactorily. 'They have refused arbitration.